Strange Tales #106
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis March 1963 issue of Strange Tales puts the Human Torch at the center of a tense battle, with the dark-clad Acrobat bearing down on a clearly strained, flame-wreathed Johnny Storm while swirling energy crackles between them. In the background, Sue, Reed, and the Thing look on in alarm — the cover copy making it plain that the rest of the Fantastic Four are along for the ride in "The Threat of the Torrid Twosome." Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks give the scene real kinetic urgency, making this a fine showcase for early Marvel's knack for superhero action with genuine stakes.
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A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster.
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